A.A. Milne citations

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“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.

"There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”

“It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.”

“Oh Tigger, where are your manners?"

"I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.”

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.”

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything.”

“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.”

“Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting thing to have.”

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

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“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

“It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.”

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”

“I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.”

“She turned to the sunlight
    And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
    "Winter is dead.”

“Pay attention to where you are going because without meaning you might get nowhere.”

“I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.”

“I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it on the way.”

“Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain."
"I know," said Pooh humbly.”

“Because my spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”

“I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.”

“You never can tell with bees.”

“There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.”

“We'll be friends until forever, just you wait and see”

“And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”

“I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.”